[Skybird]

2 hours, but worthy every minute. Reisner just is correct. His analysis is sobering, I feel absolutely confirmed by his remarks.

The West plays a double game with Ukraine. And the Ukraine, being abused from both sides now, has no other choice than to smile.

The colonel at around 53. minutes asks the audience who would be willing to enter th eqwar, send his son, go himself? He continues by comparing to walking on the street and seeing a woman getting raped, and you throw here a pepper spray and tell her "Now, try something poor thing, but dont struggle too hard, else he may go after me, too."

Thats how the West is handling this mess. And I stick to it. This way the Ukraine will and must loose - with the West complying with the Russians' wishes. Or to say it clearer: the West wants Ukraine to loose as much as the Russians want it. The whole mumbo-jumbo the West does is only for the aftergame: to not get accused to not even having tried, and having not done anything. We do not want history to point fingers at us for our wrongdoing, but the wrongdoing of ours - its wanted. We want doing it wrong.

A western community of values? Our morals are fake. An alibi.

I mentioned it before, the ukriane also would mean a massive shift of the power balance inside the EU, if it would join, due to its military experience, its heavy industry its huge agricultural sectore, its big size and population. France and Germany would loose, Poland and the Slavic block, the Baltic states would gain influence.

Teh costs for this mess will be Europe, because the Russians will mutilate Ukraine and rip her economic heart out. The remaning torso will be heavily crippled and probably not independently survivable, needing to be kept alive by endless massive financial transfusions from the EU. We shoot us in our own foot here. In both, and repeatedly, to be sure.